yungmack

Compare this match with the previous one and it's clear they learned from the squeaker with Miami and made significant changes. That willingness to learn and change is a big positive, especially coming on the heels of that embarassment in Cleveland.

Excellent analysis. If the Bills can straighten out ST - and they must - and replicate the four quarter/no let up approach they managed against Miami, I don't think any of the last 6 games are definite losses.

Isn't Mexico City now a regular stop?

And the Jets will be trending up, maybe Miami too

The flip side is that 4 of those west coast teams will be flying east and playing at 10 AM PST.

If ST had been even mediocre, this would have been the most complete all around game the Bills played this year.

Good chance they beat Pokes and Birds, lose to Jets and Steelers.

Those days are fading faster than Kershaw in the playoffs. Rookies are now expected to immediately contribute. It's all about over paying for supposed franchise QBs and a few key players, and filling out the roster with loads of players on their rookie contracts, or cheap veterans.

I'd draft the entire SC receiving corps. And I'm calling dibs right now on Slovis in the 2022 draft.

Time to cut him loose. There are QBs all over college programs who are much more plug and play than Josh. Just look at the NFL this year with Jackson running wild, Mason Rudolph/Minshew/Kyle Allen from way down in the draft outplaying Josh. Or the Bills could spend another couple of years hoping Josh becomes this fast-thinking, fantastically accurate QB he's never shown signs of being. Me, I prefer a more hard-nosed approach rather than magical thinking.

Draft a WR with the #1 overall? Seriously? And who's throwing to this paragon? The pull-it-out-your-ass wins are over and I suspect the Bills to be drafting between 8-12. First overall pick has to be a QB.

So you're at a party, a guy shoves you around, you shove back, he picks up a bat and starts beating you, gets arrested, and some bystander wonders why you you weren't arrested too. What sort of world have we become?

Problem seems more Allen than Daboll or the receivers.

Hitting Rudolph in the head with his own helmet is beyond even NHL brawls. That's assault and battery. He should be arrested, indicted and tried in the criminal court.

Follow the old saw that "you build from front to back, from inside to outside."

Haven't watched much Denver but your analysis of the Browns is what I'm seeing. Wish the Bills brought you in as a consultant.

The most important question to me: Why did you pick the name Bruce Vilanch?

I have to ask, Which faith? Even among Christians there are deep and profound differences about what "Christian" means. For example, the different rules and dogmas about divorce, homosexuality and even having ordained clergy.

I am always suspicious of people who wear their religious beliefs on their sleeve. The 2 most successful coaches in Bills history were Lou Saban, a strong Catholic who never made an issue of it, and Marv Levy, a Jew who never made an issue of it.

Care to detail what that profile is?

I don't know if Oliver will turn out to be a miss or not, but I would refer his critics to the rookie season of one of the all-time great D linemen, Bruce Smith, before giving up on the kid.

But it ought to be at least middlingly competent.

No, it was Williams head.

I, for one, have never been obsessed with the number of 300+ yd games a QB racks up. After all, the overwhelming number of games fall in the 200 yd range week after week, year after year. However, what I want is an offense that can hit over 300 yds when they must in order to win. So far, it appears this remains far beyond the Bills and their sputtering, limpy offense. Whether that's on Allen, Daboll or something else I don't know, but that inability to run on all 8 cylinders and impose its will on opponents when needed is the main thing keeping the Bills from that upper echelon. The very real question for ownership & management is whether or not you "dance with the one that brung ya" or if changes must be made at QB, OC, HC, GM to finally move into elite status. I think by the end of this season this will be much clearer.

The best way to eliminate the damage done by the run game is to take away that run game, and the best way to take away the run game is to get a quick lead and keep adding to it. In other words, until the Bills O can figure out how to score early in the game and to be a threat on every possession, the D is going to have the ball run down its throat.